I'm not going to be on xanga anymore, at least for awhile. My interest in this blogging medium has died and so I'm moving on to other things for the time being. Farewell and good day. For now.

I will be keeping this profile up in order to access old blogs and to eventually restart this.

I wake up every day to see that little more of the world has gone to shit. Another murder, another rape. Another rich fuck fires thousands just to make a little more cash for himself. Another bit of forest cut down to make furniture or to make room for a farm or a highway or more buildings. As if there isn't enough of that in the world. Another homeless guy begs for cash for some food or more likely booze or drugs, because his life looks even more bleak than yours.

I wake up to a world that has no future because we  disregard the fucking past. We rewrite it, ignore it or worst of all, forget it entirely, because face it, it's irrelevant now. I mean c'mon, we have better than they ever did. We have better medicine and medical care (largely because we have better weapons now. Healthcare and warfare go hand in hand, as a neccesity.).

I wake up to a bunch of morons trying to get me to fall in line with their self destructive beliefs that are backed up only by opinion, not fact. Not reality! Why can't you fucks see that the "God" you worship is the most frightening, most cruel, most EVIL, uncaring, inhumane being ever fucking conceived?!!! And the worst part is, you base your actions on the idea of "faith". Unearned and  undeserved trust. Trust in a fantasy.

I wake up and I wonder why the fuck I even dare to want to be with someone, because all they're going to do is bitch and whine at me to "fit in". To be yet another dull, apathetic, easily distracted anthropoid obsessed with material posessions and image.

And you know what? You're fucking winning. There's thousands, miliions, even billions of you and one of me. And you're fucking winning!!!

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." In this case I don't know who is more insane; the people who keep trying change things because they see that it needs to be done or those who believe that the way things are is as good as it gets.

And you fucks wonder why I'm pissed. Why I'm so full of anger. If you fucking cared about a damn thing you'd be pissed. You'd burn and rage and fight and riot. You'd destroy and then rebuild. You'd fucking learn. And you'd be pissed. You'd be pissed and you'd learn.

Religious tolerance only works when you live in an environment where most, if not all, suscribe to that idea. And given the central tenets of various faiths, I'm unsure of whether such a thing is possible. Especially, given the insistence that certain myths of these faiths have as much validity as science. So with that in mind, where does religious tolerance even have a leg to stand on?

Approximately 72% of the U.S. is Christian according to religioustolerance.org. 52% of that figure are Protestant. 24% are Roman Catholic.  

According to a Gallup poll taken last month, only 4 in 10 Americans believe in evolution. That is not to say the other sixty percent are creationists. A significant number didn't answer in the poll.

The U.S. is a country in which genocide, slavery and witch hunts all took place. All these events were at one time at least partially supported by highly religious groups.

Whilst the percentage of creationists in the U.S, has largely stayed around 45% since 1981, this group has had a disproportionate political influence in that time.

I'm thinking of moving out of the country at this point.